Tellyworth 5:55 am on December 22, 2022  

Two-Factor Auth progress for WordPress.org

Development work is in progress to implement two-factor authentication (2FA) for accounts on WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/. (This is something we tried briefly once before, but it wasn’t ready for production use at the time).

To be absolutely clear: this is about rolling out 2FA for accounts on the WordPress.org web site itself – that is, for people like pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party and theme developers, WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. organizers, forum participants, Make site commenters, coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. developers, and contributors to the WordPress project in general. It will have no effect on the wider world of WordPress sites, except in the sense that we hope to set a good example and encourage others to use 2FA plugins.

The 2FA implementation that we’re using is provided by the Two Factor plugin, which is a well-established project with a long history that’s a candidate for eventual inclusion in WordPress core. It’s listed on the Beta page of the plugin directory.

Given the complexity of the MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. environment, and the large network of sites and customizations that powers the many parts of the WordPress.org web site, there is ongoing work needed to ensure the plugin integrates cleanly and securely everywhere it is needed.

Progress is happening on two fronts:

We haven’t yet set a time frame for rolling out 2FA availability on accounts, but hope to have something you’ll be able to opt-in to try out in the early part of 2023.

In the meantime, if you are interested in helping to improve the two-factor plugin generally, you can install it on your own WordPress site to test it out, and get involved in its development on GitHub.

Steve Dufresne 1:34 am on December 14, 2022
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Refreshing the WordPress Showcase

As part of the ongoing visual refresh of wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/, design and layout changes introduced in A refresh of WordPress.org/Showcase have been published to the showcase today 🎉. These changes align with the new design direction already implemented on sections of wordpress.org. The design will continue to be applied to sites over the coming months.

Here’s a brief look at some of the visual changes:

Additional changes include supplementary metadata, simplified submission criteria, improvements to legacy content, and a much-improved mobile page layout.

What’s next?

This redesign is an important starting point to modernize the Showcase site design and theme code that will continue to be iterated. Additional improvements and optimizations to Showcase will be made in the future, including an improved moderation process. If you have any feedback or find a bug, please open a new GitHub issue.

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Julia Golomb 3:41 pm on December 8, 2022
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Hugh Lashbrooke 9:58 pm on December 5, 2022
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Ben Greeley 6:18 pm on November 11, 2022
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Ben Greeley 6:51 pm on October 21, 2022
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WordPress.org Redesign Update

This post is a community update on the progress and next steps of the WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ website redesign project. Conversations earlier this year led to the current design direction, which has been applied to the homepage and several other sections of the website. In the coming months, additional websites will be refreshed, with a majority of the wordpress.org websites likely updated by the end of Q1 2023.

The main goal of this redesign project is to apply the updated design direction to all websites across wordpress.org as quickly as possible, making the sites visually consistent. Site content will remain largely untouched. As usual, any future enhancements to website functionality can be requested through Meta Trac. Feedback during the redesign is available in individual website GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ issues (see Development Approach). 

The Showcase website will receive a more-significant overhaul of site content and layout, which hasn’t had a significant update in years. Some well-planned past attempts to update the site will help inform changes for this project. Planning and feedback for the Showcase site will be available in a forthcoming Make WordPress P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/. post.

Where We Are

Several sites on wordpress.org have already had the new design applied:

  • The WordPress Mobile website received a visual update with minor copy edits made to reflect recent changes to the WordPress mobile app.
  • The Download main page and subpages for release versions and counters were updated to use the new design.
  • Updated the Global Navigation and Footer in September 2022.
  • Homepage implemented the new design and copy in August 2022.
  • The News website implemented the new design in June 2022.

What’s Next

The following sites will be worked on in the coming months. This list is ordered by complexity, not necessarily the order of execution. Many of these sites will be worked on in parallel or redesigned within the GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ editor, so the frequency of sites launched with the new design should soon increase.

Lower Complexity Sites:

  • Hosting
  • Enterprise
  • About

Medium Complexity Sites:

  • Documentation (read the recent planning post on Make WordPress Documentation)
  • Developer
  • Learn
  • Five for the Future
  • PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party Directory
  • Photo Directory
  • Pattern Directory

Most Complex Sites:

  • Theme Directory
  • Forums
  • Showcase

Development Approach

Redesigned sites will follow the approach of the wporg-main-2022 theme, which uses a new parent theme, wporg-parent-2021. The parent theme provides a design and layout library as a starting point for all sites. All work will be done in repositories in the public WordPress GitHub repository. 

Once this redesign project is completed, additional website enhancements and future redesigns will be straightforward in that all sites will share a common parent theme. Currently, many wordpress.org themes have legacy functionality built into each theme. This project will allow us to better-separate legacy functionality from the theme.

Communication

Since most sites are not intended to have a complete overhaul of functionality and will be functionally similar to the current sites, batched progress on the redesign project will be announced by the MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. team regularly to keep the community informed. 
Feedback and team involvement are welcome in the redesign project GitHub repositories, with iterations able to be made based on community feedback. Sites requiring a larger overhaul (such as the Showcase website) will have their own Make posts to discuss the project and solicit community feedback, which is welcome and encouraged!

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Steve Dufresne 7:09 am on October 20, 2022
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Displaying Style Variations for Supporting Themes

WordPress 6.0 introduced the ability for theme authors to add multiple style variations to themes. These style variations, designed by theme authors and packaged in blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. themes, help users have a diverse set of approaches to their site design allowing them to find one that aligns with their goals. This feature helps to highlight the flexibility of modern WordPress themes and it’s time to have it baked into the theme directory experience.

There are many themes in the Theme Directory that ship style variations but there is currently no way to preview them in the Theme Directory. Some community members have been iterating on a beta version and its now available on WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/.

Screenshots

Previewing style variations inline

Previewing full site

Navigating style variations

What do theme authors need to do?

Nothing. If you have included style variations in /styles/{variation_name}.json and they work in the Site Editor, they will show up for users on page load.

What happens if I don’t see style variations when viewing a theme?

Where can I add feedback or log a bug?

Create a trac ticket: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/newticket.

What’s next?

  • Collect feedback on this initial launch, and iterate.
  • Add the ability to see whether a theme has style variations from the results list (Meta Ticket)

Thanks to everyone who helped so far! Any other questions, comments, conversations, or concerns can be added to this post or to a newly created metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. trac ticket.

Thanks all!

Props: @poena, @Joen, @bph, @ryelle, @adamwood, @annezazu, @bengreeley, @priethor, did I miss anyone?

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Estela Rueda 9:38 pm on October 19, 2022
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Nicholas Garofalo 12:10 pm on October 11, 2022
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Renaming WordPress.org Support to Documentation

Back on September 1st the main navigation of WordPress.org was updated and has already resulted in some excellent improvements in site metrics. In general, we’re seeing more pageviews compared to August, and we’ve seen significantly more visitors in sections like WPTV and News.

Given the relative success of these changes, I’d like to revisit a request that came up during the update. The current “Support” page, as titled within the page and the main nav, located at WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org//support/, actually shows documentation and does not provide any method for visitors to interact with humans (save for a small callout for the forums at the bottom). Even the search box offers to “Search documentation”. There have been a few requests from the Documentation team to change this:

Over the last few weeks, there has been some conversation about what we call our “resources” for site visitors and users of WordPress. While there appears to be some consensus around wanting a new landing page that highlights all of these resources, I believe that a few of us at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US were able to reach a more immediate solution.

An entire month has passed since our September nav revision, and we can see that the web traffic to Support remains largely unchanged at about 2.5 million pageviews per week. This is unsurprising given its menu placement prior to the change and the fact that the name remained unchanged.

Given that we now have a baseline for performance, I’d like to ask MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. to move ahead with re-titling the page and updating its nav item to “Documentation”. I can monitor the performance over the coming month for any abnormalities and report back. The hope is of course that this will have a neutral to positive impact, but we can discuss further in the case that it has any negative impact.

I have commented on  https://github.com/WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins/issues/262 accordingly.

Thank you to @milana_cap, @jpantani, and the contributors at the Marketing and Documentation tables at WCUS, and to the ticket authors above: @estelaris, @juanmaguitar, and @kenshino.

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